<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p> Every year in mid-December the sky fills with flashes of light shooting out of the constellation Gemini. The Geminids are fast, bright, and reliable. They never
<p>ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory has studied the dusty belt around the nearby star Fomalhaut. The dust appears to be coming from collisions that destroy up to thousands of icy comets
<table align="right" width="210" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0> <tr> <td align=center> <p class=small><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://spaceweather.com/meteors/gallery_13dec09_page6.htm"></a><br /> A Geminid fireball explodes over the Mojave Desert in 2009. Credit: Wally Pacholka / AstroPics.com / TWAN. </p></td> </tr> </table> <p>The Geminid meteor
<p>Giant filaments of cold dust stretching through our Galaxy are revealed in a new image from ESA’s Planck satellite. Analysing these structures could help to determine the forces that shape